The best street in Scotland, and possibly the whole universe, has to be Victoria Street, near Edinburgh Castle.

It's a gorgeous winding little lane lined with lovely old buildings on either side, and just hilly enough that you feel virtuous after walking up the street. In addition to two tweed clothing shops, and a cheese shop (of which I shockingly took no pictures!! but did get 2 lbs of cheese.), there is a

K1 Yarns is a light and airy boutique LYS, selling lots of local yarn. They have their own brand of yarn, named Scappa (it's the stuff in the bigger lime green shelving).

Since Scappa is from Orkney Islands, where I was about to head to, I decided to get something from some other Scottish island.

Some subtly variegated (but non-clown-barfy) tweedy fingering weight from the Isle of Harris, part of the Hebrides. It might be a touch itchy for socks, and I'm thinking it would make a really cozy cabled book cover, or a lined shawl.

The weather was so freakishly nice, that the person ahead of us in line was actually from Edinburgh, visiting the castle for the first time to enjoy the sunshine.

Another gato guard! The (human) guards switch out every hour in front of this war memorial. This one was so, ridiculously, supermodel handsome. I bet he could repel weapons with his face, zoolander-like.

Stirling

We skipped Stirling Castle to visit this absolutely stunning cemetery in Stirling (in search of DH's relatives). Fortunate are the souls buried here!

{grin} I had that question too...I'd wondered about how far the 2 lbs of cheese had travelled. Again, nifty pictures. I especially like the pictures of the Stirling Castle cemetery and the gate guards.